retrieving lost data

[jezrider]

i have a laptop which is a couple of yrs old and powered by steam.

A while ago i deleted some great pics of my car, believing i had them backed up - which is not the case

about 6 months later, the laptop got a virus and i reinstalled the OS and it all seems cool now, but judging by what the other posts say, data is never totally wiped really. is there any way of retrieving my M3 pictures out of the machine ?

Sorry if this is a silly question, i am useless with p.c's

[BliarOut]

Download a copy of restorer2000. The eval version will let you see what's still available on the hard disk. If you can still find and want to recover what's available get a friend who actually knows about PC's to do the recovery for you.

[pdV6]

Prepare to be disappointed, though; given the timeframe and the intervening o/s re-install you'll be very lucky to find your old pics still intact and not yet overwritten.

[Scraggles]

6 months of read/writes is a long time, maybe if u had tried it right away, it would have been possible....

[jezrider]

Thanks for the help guys, i will have a play this weekend and let you know. I have resigned myself to the fact that they are lost forever and if i do manage to retrieve then bonus.

Thanks again everyone

[arfur]

jezrider said:

Thanks for the help guys, i will have a play this weekend and let you know. I have resigned myself to the fact that they are lost forever and if i do manage to retrieve then bonus.

Thanks again everyone

If they are that important, then Vogon International can look at the entire history of a HD and recover pretty much anything you like ... Only if it's been Entrust or DOD wiped will they have issues. They are used by various Govt forensic depts for the obvious terrorist/paedo stuff ... They have a trial s/w that is more public and free to try www.vogon.co.uk